Test 8 · ★★★ · Standing by a friend

disco, everyone's laughing at a kid's dancing. which actually helps

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: everyone, disco, kid · What happens: laugh, help, dance · To what, where: dancing

This is test 8 · ★★★ of lesson 370 «Standing by a friend» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	disco	disco	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 laughing	punct
3	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	5 laughing	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 laughing	aux
5	laughing	laugh	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 disco	conj
6	at	at	ADP	_	10 dancing	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 kid	det
8	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 dancing	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 kid	case
10	dancing	dancing	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 laughing	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 disco	punct
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 helps	nsubj
13	actually	actually	ADV	_	14 helps	advmod
14	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 disco	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	laugh	present · progressive	everyone	a kid's dancing		vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	help	present	disco		actually property	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
3	dance		a kid			nom dancing «act transitive»: poss=agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Go and dance next to him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 dance	cc
3	dance	dance	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Go	conj
4	next	next	ADV	_	3 dance	advmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 next	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	imperative	you not said here						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	dance	infinitive	you not said here					next property	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Laugh louder so he stops

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Laugh	laugh	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	louder	loud	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	1 Laugh	xcomp
3	so	so	ADV	_	5 stops	advmod
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 stops	nsubj
5	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Laugh	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	imperative	you not said here					loud property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	stop	present	he						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 3

Tell him to sit down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Tell	iobj
3	to	to	PART	_	4 sit	mark
4	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Tell	xcomp
5	down	down	ADP	_	4 sit	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		him = he				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	sit down not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Film it for the group chat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Film	film	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Film	nsubj
3	for	for	ADP	_	6 chat	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 chat	det
5	group	group	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 chat	compound
6	chat	chat	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Film	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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